But coverage of Johnson and Stein has been scant. Stein’s effort to get federal matching funds — she did finally — merited one A-section story. The other four stories and briefs about her in the past year appeared in the Style section because Stein’s unsuccessful rival for the Green Party nomination was sitcom star Roseanne Barr. Not exactly a substantive treatment.

Johnson, who registered at 4 percent in Virginia in a September Post poll, got an A-section brief in December when he dropped out of the race for the GOP nomination to switch to the Libertarian Party, and he got a few blog posts and mentions in other poll and fundraising stories. But that’s it.